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File 200/1928 Pt 10 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty Negotiations' [‎250r] (500/868)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (432 folios). It was created in 24 Jan 1934-5 Aug 1936. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
June 5, 1934. -
Section 1.
[E 3680/139/34]
No. 1.
Sir R. Hoare to Sir John Simon.—(Received June 5.)
(No. 253.) V '
Si r > Tehran, May 17, 1934.
I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of the letter to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, mentioned in my telegram No. 75 of the 16th May, together
with a translation of his rejoinder, and a copy of my reply (which for reasons
explained below I am holding up for the present).
2. You will observe that Kazemi has been pleased to allege that I am
inaccurate in my records of conversation, just as he traversed (see my despatch
No. 232 of the 4th instant) Mr. Mallet’s veracity.
II is not obvious to me how to deal with the man. If I go and talk to
him, he—figuratively, bien entendu —rolls over on his back with all four paws
in the air, and when I have taken my courteous leave he writes me some sort of
nonsense which might just conceivably have been admissible had I not been to
see him.
4. I imagine that in essentials he reflects, with a lamentable lack of artistry,
the mood of his master. As you are aware, my firm belief is that our own
interests as well as the ultimate interests of Persia demand that we induce in the
Shah some consciousness of the fact that he is not omnipotent.
5. ( The concluding passages of Kazemi’s letter are fairly obscure. The
words ‘ ‘ based on the equality and balance of the interests of both parties ’ ’ are
a quite literal translation; they may mean that having now studied the draft
treaty Kazemi, or rather the Shah, has concluded that the balance of advantage
from its conclusion would be mainly on our side. But I am far from certain
that Kazemi means anything so sensible and precise, especially as all precision is
destroyed by the immediately following words: “and the‘observance of real
reciprocity between the contracting parties and the exigencies of the time.” The
word “ reciprocity ” may, of course, be a definite, if cryptic, reference to the
abortive bilateral Arms Traffic Agreement (see my despatch No. 190 of the
14th April), but I doubt it. As for “ the exigencies of the time,” this seems to
me just verbiage (unless it means the Shah is in a black humour), as nothing
that we have done renders the times less propitious than they were in December. °
6. I have reported by telegram that it seems to me possible that the Persian
Government are seriously considering the possibility of submitting the Persian
claims in respect of Bahrein to The Hague Tribunal. This fact would supply
the explanation, for which I have been seeking in vain, of the change which has
taken place in the attitude of the Persian Government since I had so eminentlv
satisfactory an audience in December last. It is no exaggeration to say that
there is virtually nothing the Shah will not now do for money, and there may be
a lot of money for someone at Bahrein. That being so, British agents we are
not very inventive in Persia—are for the fourth or fifth time stirring up tribal
unrest, and therefore the atmosphere is unsuitable for treaty negotiations.
7. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India and to the hon. the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. m the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
(No. 100).
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Copy of a Letter from His Majesty's Minister to His Excellency Mirza Seyyid
Bagher Khan Kazemi, dated April 21, 1934.
My dear Minister,
FROM a telegram addressed by Sir Francis Humphrys to the Foreign Office,
I learn that the Persian consulate has now received definite instructions to refuse
[140 e—1]

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This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between the Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the British and Persian [Iranian] governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues including the status of Basidu.

In addition to correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:

  • 'Speech by His Imperial Majesty the Shah at the Majlis on the Day of its Reopening for the Tenth term, Khordad 5, 1314 June 6,1935); (folio 34)
  • 'Memorandum by Mr. Eden upon a Conversation at Geneva on May 22, 1935, with M. Kazemi, the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, respecting Anglo-Persian relations' (folio 45)
  • 'Anglo-Persian Relations. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen's conversation with Persian Minister.' (folios 119-122)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee held at No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1. on Thursday, 25th October, 1934, at 3.30 p.m.' (folios 130-137)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of the Thirty-fifth meeting of the Sub-Committee, held at No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1., on Friday, October 12th, 1934, at 3,30 p.m.' (folios 151-168)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Bahrein. Memorandum by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.' (folio 169)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee held in the Room of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, House of Commons, S.W.1, on Monday, June 11th, 1934, at 4.0 p.m.' (folios 261-276)
  • 'Relations with Persia. Admiralty Memorandum', 1934 (folios 284-289)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Persian Policy. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for India', 1934 (folios 290-291)
  • 'Persia. Memorandum by Sir R. Vansittart' Foreign Office, 1934 (folios 316-317)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee held in Conference Room 'A', No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, SW1, on Friday, May 4th, 1934, at 3.45 p.m.' (folios 355-378)
  • 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached on January 17, 1934' (folios 417-431).

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (432 folios)
Arrangement

The subject 200 (Anglo-Persian Treaty Negotiations) consists of eight volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/1250-1257. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6 and 7 comprising the fifth volume, and parts 8, 9 and 10 comprising one volume each.

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 433; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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